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Kostas is a Master Mariner (Class B) as well as a graduate in English law. He joined Reed Smith in July 2009 and he is a Senior Associate in the Casualty and Admiralty department of the Shipping Group. He focuses on Salvage/ Wreck Removal, GA, Collisions, Bills of Lading and Charterparty disputes, speed and performance claims as well as Marine Insurance and Pollution claims.

Kostas graduated in first place from the Oinousses Marine Academy in 1995. He was honoured by the Foundation of Pateras and the Leon Lemos Charitable Foundation as well as Anangel Shipping Enterprises (in memory of Antonios Angelicoussis), being the top graduate in his year out of the nine marine captains' academies in Greece.

Kostas served in the Greek Merchant Navy as a Deck Officer up to and including the rank of Chief Officer for six years on a wide variety of vessel types. He also worked for a period of five years as a cargo and nautical surveyor as well as claims handler in a Piraeus based Claims & Average Agency, and two years in a Greek law firm dealing mainly with casualties and cargo matters. He also spent four months working in Tsakos Shipping (London) Ltd., the Insurance & Claims Dept. of Tsakos Group. Kostas holds an OPITO approved HUET certificate for offshore helicopter operations.

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Awards & Recognition

Scholarship (1995) from “Leon Lemos Charitable Foundation" as first place graduate from the Merchant Marine Academy of Oinousses

Award (1996) from “Anangel Shipping Enterprises” (in memory of Antonios Angelicoussis) as first place graduate from the Merchant Marine Academy of Oinousses and first place graduate in the whole of Greece

Award (2001) from “Masters & Mates Union of Greek Merchant Marine” as first place graduate from KESEN for Master’s Class B Certificate in the whole of Greece

Credentials

College of Law, Guildford, LPC, Distinction

Manchester Metropolitan University, GDL/CPE

Marine Education Institute for Senior Officers (KESEN), Piraeus, Greece, Passed in first place in the whole of Greece, Captain Class B’

University of Wales, College of Cardiff, MSc, International Transport, Scholarship from ‘Leon Lemos Charitable Foundation’

Merchant Marine Academy of Oinousses, Chios, Greece, Passed in first place in the whole of Greece